Mr. Robert A. Wood is the founder and architect of the Pinnacle Performance Institute, a business consulting company, with a passion for performance in sales, marketing and technology, headquartered in Plano, Texas. He has been a senior technologist for over 25 years with both Ross Perot and Bill Gates companies and founded Shabang.com during the Internet gold rush, raising $15M and building it to a $200M corporation. He also founded the underlying technology company, WinTech, Inc. in 1995 and has served as its President & CEO from its inception. WinTech is a premier developer of scalable client-server multi-lingual Internet business solutions at a fraction of the normal time and cost.
From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Wood served as the Chief Technology Officer, President & CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Shabang.com, an online e-commerce solution for merchants. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Wood served as Senior Consultant and Developer with Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft he was responsible for assisting both the management and technical staffs of Fortune 500 corporations in understanding, architecting and constructing distributed application architectures. Mr. Wood was president of Executive Micro-Systems from 1988 to 1990 and a systems engineer for Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) from 1985 to 1988.
Mr. Wood is a regular speaker at entrepreneurial forums training business professionals on marketing strategies and the “Secrets of Online Marketing”. He provides consulting services on all aspects of business including organizational performance, sales and marketing strategies, employee productivity and retention, successful solution implementation, technology leverage and custom software development.
Mr. Wood's areas of technology expertise include solution development discipline and methodology, component-based application architecture, business process re-engineering, user interface design analysis, legacy system integration, multi-lingual solutions, relational data modeling, system development tools, technical instruction and project management.
Mr. Wood has twenty-five years experience with over fifty corporations as an Information Technology Consultant, Systems Analyst, Systems Programmer, Application Developer, System Tools Developer and Systems Architect in the corporate and commercial software development environments. He is also chief architect of the Hyper-Object Technology (HOT) application architecture.
Mr. Wood is an original member of the International Methodology Team that developed the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) and the Microsoft Solution Development Discipline (SDD). As a methodology evangelist and Certified Master Trainer, Mr. Wood traveled throughout the United States building development teams and architecting client server systems for Microsoft clients.
In addition to his regular consulting and management responsibilities, Mr. Wood was published in the Microsoft Systems Journal, published the blue book on "Re-engineering Software Development", and presented numerous executive lectures for Fortune 500 corporations on “Re-engineering Software Development”. Mr. Wood also has several years of business administration and marketing experience before his transition to the application of technology in solving business problems and realizing business opportunities.